All About Goat
And her duck and chicken friends
Okay, so my title is misleading because we didn’t suddenly get a GOAT on our farm. We do however have a lovely little new Indian Runner duck named goat. We adopted her from another farming family who did not want to send this beautiful little duck for processing with the other meat birds they had. We are very happy that they decided to re-home her and that we were able to take her onto our homestead.
It was cute as the animals in the duck coop tried to decide if she was going to be with the ducks or if she was going to be with the chickens. She looks so much different than the other ducks that I think it took a little time for them to recognize her as a fellow duck.
She came with a name goat because of two little markings on the top of her head when she was little. We have started calling her by the nickname Goaty but sometimes just Goat especially to trick visiting friends or family that we have a new animal on our farm until they actually see her.
The chickens that share this coop with these ducks are Sulkies, that means they are a mix between the Silky chicken and Sultan chickens. One of these little girls whose name is Inky has been very broody and now she is sitting on two chicken eggs and one duck egg. This process takes 21 days.. We have not completely been keeping track of the days but it has definitely been more than two weeks. We have a rooster named Cameron and a drake, which is a male duck, named Eggbert. We expect that the eggs are fertilized.
So we are very excited to show you a baby chick peeking out from underneath her wings very soon. We will keep you posted as soon as we find one!
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Post written with the help of Avalea
Welcome Goat!
1 comment:
My kids are so happy to see this update on their "Goaty Girl" as they often referred to her! She looks happy and adjusted to her new life on your homestead.
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